The Bizarre World of Panic Media
CITIZEN CANADA PRESENTS
🔴 “BUY, BELIEVE, OBEY: THE ACID-AGE CHILDHOOD EDITION”
America once feared the future.
Not with nuance.
Not with science.
But with filmstrips.
And so, in classrooms across the 1960s and 70s, the lights dimmed, projectors hummed, and government filmmakers rolled out their latest cinematic crusade:
Technicolor terror designed to stop kids from even looking at a sugar cube.
The message?
Drugs were everywhere.
Your friends were probably on them.
And if you even thought about LSD, your brain would become a lava lamp with legs.
Not education.
Not health literacy.
But spectacle.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
🧧 “Reefer Madness Reloaded (Kids Edition)”
The government’s greatest cinematic hits:
orange-tinted hallucination montages,
fast cuts,
sweaty close-ups,
and the eternal warning:
“This is your brain… on vibes.”
These films didn’t teach danger —
they taught aesthetics.
🪙 “When Bureaucrats Discovered Psychedelia”
Behind the scenes:
grey-suited civil servants hiring Hollywood editors to simulate “tripping.”
The result?
Every classroom suddenly looked like a low-budget Pink Floyd video.
The irony?
Kids found it more funny than frightening.
🚀 “The War on Drugs vs. The Youthful Imagination”
From cartoon sequences explaining “mind melting,”
to animated skulls labeled “PEER PRESSURE,”
the state fought a cultural war using Saturday-morning logic.
It wasn’t biology.
It was Broadway.
📺 “Projectors, Panic, and Playtime”
Teachers hit play.
Students whispered.
Myths multiplied.
The films became a ritual:
moral panic packaged in 16mm reels,
shown in gyms,
libraries,
and cafeterias smelling faintly of chocolate milk.
Propaganda, yes —
but with production value.
🌍 “What We Learned (and Didn’t)”
Those films didn’t stop kids from using substances —
but they did teach generations how governments try to sell fear the way marketers sell soda.
Through style.
Through story.
Through spectacle masquerading as truth.
The real lesson?
Media literacy outlasts moral panic.
“In the end, the only thing more dangerous than a bad trip…
was a bad script.”
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“BUY, BELIEVE, OBEY: THE ACID-AGE CHILDHOOD EDITION”
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